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Peter Handke

Peter Handke

Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942, in Griffen, Austria) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 2019, Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.

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Movies Made By Peter Handke (12)

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)

A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple's conversation meanders through memories, unspoken desires and passion through poetic dialogue. ...

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City of Angels (1998)

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a ten ...

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The Absence (1993)

Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city. ...

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Wings of Desire (1987)

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the ang ...

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The Malady of Death (1985)

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body. ...

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The Left-Handed Woman (1978)

Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the s ...

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Short Letter to the Long Goodbye (1978)

A young German man who has just arrived in America, hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. However, he soon discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. ...

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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1975)

Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through the city streets and spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre. ...

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Wrong Move (1975)

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. S ...

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Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse (1971)

About two young men who come to the city in need of new experiences and some action. But life in the city is such that there was nothing left to experience. So the men imagined how one could live. But in the city there were other ideas about life. So begin ...

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3 American LPs (1969)

Another short was 3 American LPs, which was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three LPs. There was a song by Van Morrison, another by Harvey Mandel, and one of Credence Clearwater Revival. It ...

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Offending the Audience (1966)

Four actors analyze the nature of theatre for an hour and then alternately insult the audience and praise its "performance." TV recording of the premiere at the "Theater am Turm" in Frankfurt/Main. ...

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Movies Starring Peter Handke (11)

Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late (2016)

In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angry young man and pop star of the literary scene. As soon as he was on the bestseller lists, he turned his back on the hype. For many years, he has lived and ...

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The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)

A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple's conversation meanders through memories, unspoken desires and passion through poetic dialogue. ...

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Griffen – On the Tracks of Peter Handke (2012)

Bernd Liepold-Mosser returns home to a place bordering the bilingual region of Lower Carinthia to talk to the people there about their "great son" Peter Handke. His search unearths the many unresolved contradictions and ambivalences of a small place where ...

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One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years (2008)

The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became foundations of the German New Wave and cemented the reputation of their director. In One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders ...

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Days and Nights in Paris (2004)

Reencounter with a myth. 40 years since Georg Stefan Troller reported from his adopted home in "Pariser Journal," he returns to his old haunts. A journey through time in a city of contradictions that is always reinventing itself. ...

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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us (2003)

This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and in detail about how the award-winning film was devised, cast, filmed, scored and edited. ...

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The Malady of Death (1985)

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body. ...

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Alice in the Cities (1974)

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing t ...

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3 American LPs (1969)

Another short was 3 American LPs, which was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three LPs. There was a song by Van Morrison, another by Harvey Mandel, and one of Credence Clearwater Revival. It ...

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Dichter Forum Graz (1967)

Five young writers from the 'Forum Stadtpark' in Graz who were little-known back then play bizarre characters from their manuscripts, which often appeared in book form much later. ...

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